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Message-Id: <200708121209.40995.ak@suse.de>
Date:	Sun, 12 Aug 2007 12:09:40 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	discuss@...-64.org
Cc:	Petr Vandrovec <petr@...drovec.name>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Please remove ab144f5ec64c42218a555ec1dbde6b60cf2982d6 was Re: [discuss] [PATCH] Fix triplefault on x86-64 bootup

On Sunday 12 August 2007 10:12, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> Hello,
>   after I upgraded kernel on my box to current git, only thing it did
> was rebooting in a loop.  After some digging I found that it is silly
> to apply alternative to memcpy by using that every same memcpy...
> Sorry if it is known bug, I do not see it reported in my LKML mailbox...

Ok Linus already applied your patch. Even though it's a really 
bad fragile hack, not better than the old bug.

Petr are you double sure you really tested with
ab144f5ec64c42218a555ec1dbde6b60cf2982d6
already applied? I bet not -- it is the symptom exactly fixed by this patch
(although 

Linus, I would prefer if you reverted 
b8d3f2448b8f4ba24f301e23585547ba1acc1f04
again -- it should really not be needed with 
ab144f5ec64c42218a555ec1dbde6b60cf2982d6

And I really dislike Petr's patch because while it might work
today (I'm not 100% sure it actually works to only replace
2 bytes) if we change memcpy ever it'll likely cause strange 
problems again.

-Andi
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